The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 9
... meet with any- body , each becomes a fraction . ' - Though the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years , out of sight and in sight , and against all ...
... meet with any- body , each becomes a fraction . ' - Though the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years , out of sight and in sight , and against all ...
Page 28
... meet the conditions , and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as he could carry in those invisible pockets of his , never wrought by needle and thread , and it went like a charm . — I admire still more than the saw ...
... meet the conditions , and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as he could carry in those invisible pockets of his , never wrought by needle and thread , and it went like a charm . — I admire still more than the saw ...
Page 95
... meet , wherever the fresh moral sentiment , the instinct of freedom and duty , come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain , the spark will pass . The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful ...
... meet , wherever the fresh moral sentiment , the instinct of freedom and duty , come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain , the spark will pass . The resistance to slavery in this country has been a fruitful ...
Page 96
... meet the barroom wits and bullies ; he is a wit and a bully himself , and something more : he is a graduate of the plough , and the stub - hoe , and the bushwhacker ; knows all the secrets of swamp and snow - bank , and has nothing to ...
... meet the barroom wits and bullies ; he is a wit and a bully himself , and something more : he is a graduate of the plough , and the stub - hoe , and the bushwhacker ; knows all the secrets of swamp and snow - bank , and has nothing to ...
Page 108
... meet ) , these bloated and shrivelled bodies , bald heads , bead eyes , short winds , puny and precarious healths and early deaths . ' We live ruins amidst ruins . The great facts are the near ones . The account of the body is to be ...
... meet ) , these bloated and shrivelled bodies , bald heads , bead eyes , short winds , puny and precarious healths and early deaths . ' We live ruins amidst ruins . The great facts are the near ones . The account of the body is to be ...
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